Benjamin j



(No Model.)

B. J. CLOES.

D003 HANGER.

Patented Sept. 25,1883.

" V UNITED STATES PATENTl OEEICE.

'BENJAMIN J. eLoEs, or LAKE BLUFF, Assienon on ONE-HALE rro ALBERT E. PULLMAN, on cruche@ ILLINOIS.

Doon-HANGER SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 285,575, dated September 25, 188?.

\ Application led June'lB, 1881. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN J. CLoEs, a citizen of the United. States, residing at Lake Bluff, in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements'in Hangers for Sliding Doors; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof,'reference being had `to the 'accompanying drawings,

1o which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates especially to hangers for freight-car doors, and I shall confine my description ehieiiy to its applicationi to that purpose, although all the essential features are equally applicable to barn-doors, and to sliding doors for all other purposes; and it consists in employing two angle-irons, one secured to the upper part of` the door and the other to the wall of the structure above the 2o door, the two being arranged in reverse order and overlapping each other, whereby the horizontal portion of the lower one lies abovethe horizontal portion of the upper, and operates in conjunction with loose balls or rollers rest- 2 5 ing on the horizontal portion of the upper angle-iron and supporting that of the lower one. It consists, also, in employing, in connection with the angle-irons and balls, constructed and arranged as above, stops or projections on the .30 inner face of theV Vhorizontal portion of each angleiron to limit the movement of the balls or rollers; and it consists, furthermore, in the specific construction which I prefer to adopt for carrying my inventioninto effect on freight- 3 5 cars--to wit, in combining with the sliding door two angle-irons, the first projecting vertically upward from the inner upper face of the door, and thence horizontally forward above the door, and the second and longer one 4o extending downward from the lower outer face ofthe wall above the door, and thence horizontally backward, and carrying balls or rollers on which the said horizontal portion ofthe first angle-iron hangs, the horizontal portion 4 5 of each angle-iron being provided with internal projections or. stopstwo on each side of its centen-to limit the movement of the balls or rollers, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front eleva- 5o tion of my device, showing the door open 3 Fig.

' by the dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2, one being vplaced between each pair of stops on opposite height of the stops on the opposite angle-irons,

2, a similar view, showing the door closed; Fig. 3, a vertical cross-section .through the door and fascia-board, giving a -sectional end view. of my device, and Figs. 4 and 5 detail Views. l

A is the door, having its lower end restrained from moving outward by any suitable guiding device.

Bis the angleliron, secured to the door at its inner upper face, and C the angle-iron, se- 6o cured tov the lower outer face of the fasciaboard D. It will beseen that the horizontal portion of the plate B projects forward, while g th at of the plate C projects backward, whereby when the door is placed in position they lie the one above the other. The side of the car u restrains the inward movement of the upper end of the door when it is closed. The horizontal portion of each angle-iron is provided with four projections orstops, 1r, on its in- 7o ner face two near the center, but on opposite sides of the same, and one toward each endthese stops being arranged at corresponding distances apart 'in both angle-rons. This ar` rangement of course brings the outer stops nearer the ends in the shorter angle-iron than in the longer one.

E represents loose balls or rollers, two of which are ordinarily to be employed,.as shown sides of the center of the horizontal portion of the angle-iron C. The diameter of the said balls or rollers is greater than the combined whereby the stops may move past each other as the door slides from side to side. Whenthe doorris placed in position, the angle-iron- B hangs on these balls, as clearly represented in Fig. 3 of the drawings,and its movement from side to side is limited by suitable open and closed door-stops, F.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that as the door is moved from side to side to open and close it the two central stops on the angle-iron B pass back and forth across the two central stops on the angle-iron @,and that when the door reaches its right-hand limit the right-hand ball or roller is coniinedv between the right eXtreme stop of the angleroo dotted lines in Fig. 2.

moderately increased friction,) after which it will be found to have assumed its proper po-- sition and to work with its natural smooth-v ness and regularity. The same is true if both the balls or rollers are displaced; and I deemr this capability of self-adjustment to be a very important feature of my device, as it enables the parts to be put together without difliculty. After the device has adjusted itself in the rst instance a displacement of the balls or-rollers can only occur under unusual conditions-as, for example, the tipping or overturning of the car.

Of course in constructing the device the positionsoithe stops must be arranged according to the width of the door and opening.

In using the terms angle-irons77 I do not wish to be understood as limitingmyself to any material, for although iron is generally to be preferred, and will in a majority of cases be employed, still the same results would follow if wood, for example, were used instead.

If the door is found to roll too easily, a slide may be substituted for one of the Vrollers or balls.

by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a hanger for sliding doors, the combination of two angle-irons, secured one to the upper part of thedoorand the other'to the wall of the structure above the door, in reverse order, and overlapping each other, Vwhereby the horizontal portion of the one attached to the door lies above the horizontal portion of the one attached to the wall, and loose balls or rollers E between the horizontal portions of said angle-irons and in frictional contact with l each of them, substantially as described.

2. A hanger for sliding doors, comprising the angle-irons B and C, the -one .secured to the upper partoftheidoor andtheotherto the wall of the structure -above .the-doo1:, `in

reverse order, and overlappingleach other, in-` combination with the loose ballsor rollers E,

resting on the angle-iron Candsupporting: the angle-iron B, said angle-irons being pro-y vided with stops to limitthe movement of the balls orrollers, substantially as described.

The combi11ation,with a wall and sliding;

BENJABHN J.- CLOES.'

In presence ofl I. G. DYRnNroRrH,. WVM. H. DYRENFORTH.`

Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure 

